I haven't a clue what my sleep would be like without my 450 mg Seroquel XR, a medication I've taken for several years. I can say that on the rare occasions I forget to take my evening medications I can't fall asleep. In the end I remember late at night because I pretty much say "Hmm, I guess I forgot my meds since I'm not at all tired at 12 am." Or, I am starting to have what feels like a nervous breakdown. Then I take it extremely late and can't fall asleep until 3 am. If I'm experiencing the "breakdown", I take 1 mg of Ativan on top of my evening medications and that helps. Really, it is important for me to take my evening meds at 7 pm and fall asleep by 11 pm for me to rest well and get up by 6:45 am. That's around an 8 hour sleep.

But despite my Seroquel XR and other evening meds my sleep can still vary based on various factors, like time of year, stress levels, moods, excitement, etc.

I had been depressed for several weeks up until maybe 2 weeks ago so I had a harder time getting up in the morning. These last couple weeks my mood has been mixed, but now seems to be rising in a more pleasurable way. My meds still help me go to sleep, but sometimes I stay up later. Either way, lately I've been waking up several times in the wee early hours, sometimes feeling awake enough at 3 am to get up and do something, but I don't allow myself to do that. I try hard to go back to sleep again. But like this morning, it is Sunday and I woke up for the fourth time at 5 am and couldn't get back to sleep.